Close to airshow, how about the view from my seat of the Coronation Fly Past

In the Suez Canal Zone

Now there is a true gentleman, he deserves another medal for that.

Here’s another parachute on the way out

And here is another Pole in his natural environment

Ray Holmes book should be essential reading for anyone interested in a WWII expert.
He shot down the He111 which crashed on Victoria station in 1940, and as the thread shows , was still an expert PR pilot late in the war.

Certainly there were many instances of the Luftwaffe shooting at anything that moved and haystacks etc. But many incidents I suspect were the result of aircraft firing at other aircraft and the rounds falling short.
We were having breakfast one Sunday morning when 3 cannon shells hit the bungalow, two of them came within a few feet of the window we were sitting by. We thought we had been strafed, but I remember only hearing the explosions followed by two? aircraft going over the house and further bursts of firing.
As you say times were very different and cannot be judged by todays strange moral standards. As I have said before “The only good German is a dead one”, How non PC is that??

In the Meteor NF one was close enough to the visor not to have to lean too much, and of course the harness moved with one.
In the Mosquito I only did the straps up for take off, and, if I remembered, for landing. The radar was a bit forward and needed a hunched position to see into the visor. It was also necessary to swivel round 90 degrees towards the pilot to operate any nav equipment which was behind the pilots seat. That’s what I blame my poor posture on anyway. 🙂 One sat several inches below and behind the pilot. He had a proper seat, the nav had a cushion on the front end of the bomb bay. The pilots view was not seriously inconvenienced.
As for the British developed AI radars the least said the better. We developed the original American SCR 520/720 sets to a very usable system and then bought the resultant AI Mk10 from Westinghouse for serious dollars.
AI MkIX was developed in parallel, using the same cavity magnetron, but was a more ambitious set. It was also dogged by production problems and was so long in development that it missed out. It was exported postwar to Yugoslavia in the Mosquito NF38, which did not enter RAF service. The tubes were very small and therefore difficult to interpret.
This contraption was developed into AI Mk17 or 18 by the simple expedient of a better 3cm magnetron and by strapping a magnifying glass over the tube:eek::eek::mad::mad:

Propstrike makes some very pertinent points. May I also add that no part of the aircraft should be cut off at the edge of the pic. This destroys the illusion of movement, and the subject is apparently locked in place. Also leave more room ahead of the aircraft than behind it, to give it space to fly in to.